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Bill Maher expands podcast operation with a controversial host


Sage Steele, who left ESPN last year, has a new show debuting today.

Huberman, a neurobiology professor at Stanford, rose to prominence several years ago by making science explainer videos and appearing as a guest on shows like The Joe Rogan Experience and Lex Fridman Podcast. The author, NYMag features writer Kerry Howley, argues that Huberman’s academic background gives him a sheen of legitimacy, even though his usual pet topics — fitness, mental wellness, and why you should never ever have even a drop of alcohol — have nothing to do with his specialty of visual-system wiring. “How comfortable one feels with the science propagated on Huberman Lab depends entirely on how much leeway one is willing to give a man who expounds for multiple hours a week on subjects well outside his area of expertise,” Howley writes.

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